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Was It Something I Said?

I just read on my own blog on one of the RSS feeds (I never know what articles are going to pop up on the right hand column) that a Jewish Rabbinical group is boycotting the Catholic-Jewish dialogue in Italy on January 17, 2009 (3 days before the inaugural here) .
http://www.zenit.org/rssenglish-24321

Some Jewish rabbinical groups I am told still boycott the buying of anything German like Mercedes' so I am not surprised that they boycott this German Pope. But I am sad.

The title of this was almost "What is God's Anti-dote to the Flood?" Answer: Jesus.
Why do I say that?
Look at what is happening in California- those fires. Heaven help us. Clearly if an insane arsonist in California can wipe out hundreds of houses and entire communities, God can wipe out a planet. Clearly if Bush can wipe out Saddam Hussein and a good portion of all his armies and followers in a few months, wiping out the planet is child's play for God.

REMEMBER THE FLOOD? God promised he wouldn't do it again-remember. Remember his sign of a Rainbow- the Rainbow is the sign of his covenant to never let it happen again. Remember.
But while God keeps his promises, men still screw up. Men are still men; the fallen progeny of Adam.
How schmucky were we?
Pretty bad-
Really off the tracks bad. Completely missing the mark bad.
So God, remembering his promise to never wipe mankind off the planet again, so loved the World that he did something unbelievable- which is why a lot of the world still can't believe it.
God so loved the world that he Gave his one and only Son, so that whosoever believes in him, wouldn't die- but could live eternally - with Him.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

No.
I'm not kidding.

When Jesus came to earth, growing up in a Jewish community as a Jewish child, in a Jewish nation under oppression of a foreign force, he found that the leadership under oppression was
self-justifying themselves under a reign of law and rules that quashed the essential Spirit of God which is at it's very heart and core, LOVE.
All the highest and mightiest spiritual leaders of the day, scribes (legal scholars) and pharisees, all ran him through a set of tests and verbal twists to see if he was authentic and had any authority. He astounded a lot of them- a lot of them just got jealous of his wisdom (without holding any official position in the spiritual hierarchy.)
Eventually he threatened them so much that they petitioned the Romans to have him killed- in the most demeaning humiliating way.
He of course knew that this would take place, sweated blood over it, and eventually laid down his life which served for all time as the final Atonement, final Sacrificial lamb that saved all who believe on his name from the Angel of Death- who will pass over the souls of all who believe in Jesus--so they will live forever.
It took Jesus to do this, and only Jesus could do this because of his divinity.

God gave himself rather than break his promise to humanity- even though his Justice compelled that there be a penalty which needed an atonement for man's arrogant rebellion against Him.

Isn't this all really anti-Semetic crazy stuff? No it's Pro-Semetic Salvation Sanity.

Because Jesus is a Jew who first came to save Jews, God's chosen, and because he is the Jewish Messiah.

Are gentiles more righteous now than Jews? Absolutely not. Gentiles are only righteous because of a Jew named Jesus.

So all you Rabbinical guys boycotting the Germans, please go to the Catholic -Jewish dialogue- at least lets talk. We love you. You gave us our Messiah. Salvation came from the Jews.
And our spiritual mother is the best Jewish Mother in heaven.

p.s. I wasn't kidding about the wanting to be Ambassador to the Vatican thing.